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Bachtyar Ali //
In an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Behrouz Boochani appoints Bachtyar Ali as his favorite Kurdish writer next to the poet Sherko Bekas. Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer who was held in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea from 2013 until its closure in 2017.